Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality

by Catherine Pease-Watkin, Philip Schofield, Michael Quinn

The present volume contains three essays, 'Of Sexual Irregularities', 'Sextus', and 'General Idea of Not Paul, but Jesus', written in the mid-1810s but never before been published in authoritative form. Bentham presents the utilitarian case for sexual liberty on the grounds that the gratification of the sexual appetite constituted the purest form of pleasure, in opposition to the traditional Christian view that the only morally acceptable form of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199685185
• ISBN13: 9780199685189
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"